Times Colonist
June 01, 2008
As well as being a University of Victoria music professor, Andrew Schloss is a musician who has played with everyone from Laurie Anderson to Jimmy Page.
At the university, he teaches students to play a rare vintage Buchla modular synthesizer. The California instrument produces the classic bleeps, whirs and blips one associates with early synthesizers. Inventor Don Buchla and Robert Moog each invented modular synthesizers in 1963.
Schloss, a computer music whiz who plays (and co-designed) the high-tech Radiodrum, knows Don Buchla. He once invited the legendary synthesizer guru to be a keynote speaker at a new music conference in Vancouver.
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